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The Twitter thread is better. You get the full context of other peoples' reactions, comments, references, etc. This is lost with blogs. It's the same reason wh

The Twitter thread is better. You get the full context of other peoples' reactions, comments, references, etc. This is lost with blogs. It's the same reason why many people go to the Hacker News comments before clicking the article. :)

Shared404 4y ago
I like having the twitter/mastodon thread easily linked, but 10/10 times would rather see the article first.
serf 4y ago
>The Twitter thread is better. let's recognize subjectivity a bit here. it's different, you may like it more -- that's great , but prove 'better' a bit better. i've said this dozens of times, and i'm sure people are getting tired of the sentiment, but Twitter is a worse reading experience than all but the very worst blog formats for long-format content. ads, forced long-form formatting that breaks flow constantly, absolutely unrelated commentary half of the time (from people that have absolutely no clout or experience with whatever subject), and the forced MeTooism/Whataboutism inherent with social media platforms and their trolling audience. It gets a lot of things right with communication, and many people love reading long-form things on Twitter -- but really i'm just asking you to convince me here ; there is very little 'better' from what I see : help me to realize the offerings. tl;dr : old man says 'I just don't get IT.' w.r.t. long-form tweeting.
- lazzlazzlazz 4y ago
  It should be very obvious that when someone says "X is better" they mean that — in their estimation and according to their beliefs, X is better. Spelling it all out isn't always necessary.
  - anyfoo 4y ago
    I don't think that's obvious. You could well mean that "X is better" in general, and consequentially even advocate that "so Y, which is not better, is a waste of resources and should not be done". It's hard for an outside observer to judge which one you mean, and just in case you meant the advocating one, people might feel to discuss to prevent damage. It's easy for you to clarify with "specifically for me" or something similar. And there even is something that I think is generally better, namely that I've seen this blog (and others) attract long form comments from people who were also there, and elaborate some more historical details in them. On Twitter it's mostly condensed to the bare minimum, which you can see on this very Twitter thread! So losing the blog would be bad.
  - ilyt 4y ago
    In according to subjective media, sure. But in tech-focused social media, not really. There are mostly objective things (like too little contrast, or site working slow) that can be said about readability for example.
- anyfoo 4y ago
  > absolutely unrelated commentary half of the time (from people that have absolutely no clout or experience with whatever subject) Yeah, you can see that by just looking at the comments for the first tweet there. A few ones are maybe interesting nuggets of information (but a comment on the blog or on HN might have elaborated more), the rest is... exactly what you say.
kelnos 4y ago
I won't quite say I don't care about other people's reactions (seeing as I'm here on HN, caring about other people's reactions), but Twitter makes it annoying enough to follow the original multi-tweet material such that I greatly prefer the blog post.

Shared404 4y ago

I like having the twitter/mastodon thread easily linked, but 10/10 times would rather see the article first.

serf 4y ago

>The Twitter thread is better. let's recognize subjectivity a bit here. it's different, you may like it more -- that's great , but prove 'better' a bit better. i've said this dozens of times, and i'm sure people are getting tired of the sentiment, but Twitter is a worse reading experience than all but the very worst blog formats for long-format content. ads, forced long-form formatting that breaks flow constantly, absolutely unrelated commentary half of the time (from people that have absolutely no clout or experience with whatever subject), and the forced MeTooism/Whataboutism inherent with social media platforms and their trolling audience. It gets a lot of things right with communication, and many people love reading long-form things on Twitter -- but really i'm just asking you to convince me here ; there is very little 'better' from what I see : help me to realize the offerings. tl;dr : old man says 'I just don't get IT.' w.r.t. long-form tweeting.

lazzlazzlazz 4y ago
It should be very obvious that when someone says "X is better" they mean that — in their estimation and according to their beliefs, X is better. Spelling it all out isn't always necessary.
- anyfoo 4y ago
  I don't think that's obvious. You could well mean that "X is better" in general, and consequentially even advocate that "so Y, which is not better, is a waste of resources and should not be done". It's hard for an outside observer to judge which one you mean, and just in case you meant the advocating one, people might feel to discuss to prevent damage. It's easy for you to clarify with "specifically for me" or something similar. And there even is something that I think is generally better, namely that I've seen this blog (and others) attract long form comments from people who were also there, and elaborate some more historical details in them. On Twitter it's mostly condensed to the bare minimum, which you can see on this very Twitter thread! So losing the blog would be bad.
- ilyt 4y ago
  In according to subjective media, sure. But in tech-focused social media, not really. There are mostly objective things (like too little contrast, or site working slow) that can be said about readability for example.
anyfoo 4y ago
> absolutely unrelated commentary half of the time (from people that have absolutely no clout or experience with whatever subject) Yeah, you can see that by just looking at the comments for the first tweet there. A few ones are maybe interesting nuggets of information (but a comment on the blog or on HN might have elaborated more), the rest is... exactly what you say.

kelnos 4y ago

I won't quite say I don't care about other people's reactions (seeing as I'm here on HN, caring about other people's reactions), but Twitter makes it annoying enough to follow the original multi-tweet material such that I greatly prefer the blog post.